U.S. soldiers in Iraq who try to read about the Wikileaks disclosures or read coverage of them in mainstream news sites on unclassified networks get a page warning them that they're about to break the law.
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Military bases across the U.S. have banned the sale of a new "Medal of Honor" video game that lets a player pretend to be a Taliban fighter and "shoot" U.S. troops in Afghanistan. Gamers are scoffing at the decision, saying that advanced technology has made it commonplace in the gaming world to let players switch sides and play the bad guy.
Read more »The U.S. government will have unmanned surveillance aircraft monitoring the whole southwest border with Mexico from September 1, as it ramps up border security in this election year, a top official said on Monday.
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A US federal watchdog has criticised the US military for failing to account properly for billions of dollars it received to help rebuild Iraq.
(They sure as hell won't just 'criticize' you or I if we did the same thing....
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1 in 20 East Germans were informants. "The Lives of Others" is a sad and unsettling movie about what results when Soviet statism is executed with German efficiency: The Stasi. Funny how much of East German communist assets like this museum were homesteaded, and now the "kindler, gentler" western state wants to seize it all over again. Never again!
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USNORTHCOM has admitted that they are preparing military operations within the United States. This is the first time in history this has been done and they will be working with DHS, state and local law enforcement on U.S. soil.
Read more »From The Christian Science Monitor: Army Spc. Bradley Manning has been arrested in connection with the April release of classified footage of a US helicopter mistakenly shooting Iraqi civilians to website WikiLeaks. -- Sorry, wasn't sure what general category to put this under....
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Naval officer takes plea deal and has 2 year sentence and a $28,000 fine dropped.
Read more »"If the people were to ever find out what we have done, we would be chased down the streets and lynched." - President George H W Bush
Read more »Park Police, Secret Service give contradictory accounts of why Lafayette Park was ''closed'' during protest by present and former service members who chained themselves to a fence near a White House fence.
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